TITLE: Medicare and the Federal Budget

CIS-NO: 2002-H261-21  
SOURCE: Committee on the Budget. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: May 8, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+40 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1035-B-01; 1035-B-02  
SUDOC: Y4.B85/3:107-30  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28449-4.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-30. Hearing to examine the financial status of Medicare and to review the budgetary effects of various reform proposals, in light of projected increases in Medicare costs.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare financial status and reform proposals, review

DESCRIPTORS:  
    BUDGET OF THE U.S.; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; MEDICARE; PROJECTIONS

02-H261-21 TESTIMONY NO: 1     May 8, 2002 p. 4-40
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   SAVING, THOMAS R. (Medicare Trustee)
   ANTOS, JOSEPH R. (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research)
   FEDER, JUDITH (Dean, Public Policy, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Outlook for Medicare program costs through 2074 (related graphs, p. 12-15); potential for future Medicare costs to exceed Federal revenues; overview of projected costs of proposed Medicare reforms, including prescription drug benefits (related graph, p. 21).
   Need to implement Medicare prescription drug benefits despite budgetary pressures; positive aspects of Medicare programs and financial performance (related graphs, p. 25-28 passim).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare financial status and reform proposals, review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   DRUGS; STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICAL DATA: GOVERNMENT; STATISTICAL DATA: BANKING, FINANCE, AND INSURANCE

LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2003